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J. T. SMITH.

UMBRBLLA.

(No Model.)

No 398 666. Patented Feb. 26, 1889.

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.lAllIES T. SMITH, OF NEWv YORK, N. Y.

UMBRELLA.

SPECFCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,666, dated February 26, 1889.

Application filed August 25, 1888. Serial No. 283,776. (No model.)

To @ZZ Lv/71.0711, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES T. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useul Improvements in Parasols, Umbrellas, and Canes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Myinvention relates to an improvementin umbrellas, parasols, and canes.

The object of my ii'iveaition is to provide a substitute for the well-known runner on a parasol or umbrella stick, used to slide upon the stick to cover and hold a joint in the same, and whereby, when it is not desired to fold the parasol or umbrella stick or to use the same as a cane, the runner and the joint are concealed from view. To this end the invention consists of the construction hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention illustrated in the accompanying` drawings, in which- Figure lV is a longitudinal view in section; Figs. :2, 3, l, and 5, details; and Fig'. 6, a modiication.

Referring to the drawings, A A constitute portions of a rod connected by a joint, B. The portion A is secured solidly in any suitable manner to or within the longer upper part of a wooden or metal stick, C. Theportion A is placed within a tube, D, and is provided at its lower end wit-h a pin, b', adapted to slide within a slot, b2, of said tube. Near the end of the slot b? is a smaller slot, b3,

at right angles to the former, and the two,

with the sliding pin, form what is known as a bayonet-j oint.

The tube D placed within a hollow shank or handle, F, which may be made of wood or metal. In order to secure the tube D within the handle F, the hollow in the handle may be made of about the same diameter as the tube, so as to permit the tube to be driven into the handle, and thus be held therein without further attachment; or the end of the tube may be provided with a screw-threaded j shank, g, as shown, to engage with a screwthreaded`reeess, g', in the end of thehandle F.

The handle can be of any length desired, and the mechanism thus described enables t the length of the stick to be shortened by folding at about the center, when the jointed rod is withdrawn from the handle, so that the joint. will be beyond the handle. Itdeducts nothing from the appearance of an umbrella or parasol when the same is used, as the mechanism to produce the result is entirely concealed by the handle and the handle itself is not disgured.

The invention is alike applicable to hollow and solid sticks, shanks, and handles, and to umbrellas and shades for baby-carriages and other vehicles, as well as to those carried by hand, and also to canes for folding` them when not in use.

Instead of the bayonet-joint in the tube, the slot may be spiral, or of any other desired angle.

In Fig. 6 a modifica-tion is shown. Gis a top stick, upon which the frame of a parasol may be attached, and is provided with a stopring, H, a jointed bit, I, and a short malescrew tube, K. L is the handle part, made hollow and havingl screwed at the open end thereof onto an internal thread a femalescrew ferrule,M. The top stick, G, is inserted in the handle and passed down until the screwtube K meets the ferrule M, when they are screwed together. lVhen it is desired to withdraw the upper stick and bend or fold it, the handle is unscrewed and the stick part G is drawn until the joint I is out of the handle and the stop-ring H comes in contact with the ferrule M, which prevents the entire withdrawal of the stick.

l. In combination with a hollow handle of an umbrella, parasol, or cane, a folding' stick composed of the parts A A', connected by a joint or bit and adapted to slide into the handle, so as to conceal from view the said joint, and a lock within the handle to connect the handle and stick, which lock is also concealed from view when the stick is in place within the handle, substantially as described.

2. In combination with the stick of an umbrella, parasol, or cane, a handle, a jointed rod connecting` the stick and handle, and a tube within and concealed by the handle, into IOO which the jointed rod is adapted to slide, sub- In testimony whereof T :Mix my si gnature in stantiaiiy as described. presence of witnesses.

3. The Combination of the stick, jointed rod, provided With a piu, the tube Wit-hin which said rod is adapted to s1ide,zmd provided with :L slot to receive said pin, and the hollow hr1-udie within which is secured said tube, substantially as described.

JAS. T. SMITH.

Witnesses:

OWEN WARD, HENRY D. NORTHROP, E. MAWHINNEY. 

